Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53220
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 101.2009
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We consider the problem of how societies should be partitioned into classes if individuals express their views about who should be put with whom in the same class. A non-bossiness condition makes the social aggregator dependent only on those cells of the individual partitions the society members classify themselves in. This information is used to construct for each profile of views an opinion graph. By means of natural sovereignty and liberalism requirements, we characterize the non-bossy aggregators generating partitions in which the social classes are refinements of the connected components in the opinion graph.
Subjects: 
Social Aggregation
Group Identity
Liberalism
Non-bossiness
JEL: 
D71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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